The Guardian has published a special series this week, titled “TheSeven Ages of an Artist,” interviewing a set of artists including Laure Prouvost, Richard Deacon, Rachel Whiteread, and others, as they reflect on the different stages of their career, considered from their varying vantage points in age and experience.  “I’m lucky my work started to be supported in my 30s – it is hard to be picked up really young, because you have not tried enough and have not got lost enough,” Prouvost says. (more…)

The Guardian has posted a video interview with French artist Laure Prouvost, discussing her winning of the Max Mara Award for Women, and her immersive video work Swallow, exploring the raw emotion of sensation, now on view at Whitechapel Gallery.  “It’s this idea of what’s real and what’s not, expressed in video and bricolage.”  She says.
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